10/29

Headed east this weekend with some friends.  Arrived to the river well before light, and we were rewarded with some good water all to ourselves.  The first three fish we landed all came on a triple, couldn't have started the day any better.  I look over and watch my buddy fighting a fish, I see my other friend swing back on a fish, and as I looked for my float in the stream, it was no where to be found, so I set the hook and boom fish on.  We all landed our fish and thought it was going to be one of those epic days.  We ended up hooking up with a bunch more fish before we decided to move.  Went higher up in the river system, and proceeded to whack some more fish in the lower clear water.  Boy were the crowds out today, and it was combat fishing.  We continued to dodge bullets, and fished among the crowds.  We were rewarded when we came up to a run, and the 2 people fishing it, left as we got there so we had a nice run to ourselves.  It was fish on for about 30 minutes as we hit fish on almost every drift.  Pautzke eggs in borxofire natural color with yellow mesh was the ticket.  All three of us were running the same drift, and time after time they would only take the yellow bags.  I have always heard people talking about color making such a big difference, and on this day that was certainly the case.  The water was clear, so part of me thinks that the yellow had a more natural tone to the eggs, and that made the difference.  After we left, we headed back to Ohio, and stopped at an eastern trib for a few hours.  We hooked up with several fish in that stream, and had most of the runs to ourselves.  It was a nice break from the zoo that we had fished earlier.  Most of the fish caught in the Ohio trib had some color to them, with a couple that were fresh.  The pink eggs in chartreuse mesh were taking most of the fish there.  Goes to show that it is always useful to carry a variety of colors and sizes, you just never know what the fish are keying in on.  The fall is starting to wind down, as old man winter takes his hold over northeast Ohio.  Enjoy the scenery while it lasts.